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Voices

Vernon’s strategy can preserve heritage

By
Norma A. Manning
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 — Issue 380

Vernon should focus on baseload power.

Decentralized intermittent generation gobbles up open lands. Vernon should preserve its history of agricultural and open lands.

Voices

When online community discussion becomes a skewed feedback loop

By
Angela Earle Gray

BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...

Love Trumps hate?

By
Lyle Hughes

GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...

Area youth gave a week of in poverty- and hurricane-relief work in North Carolina

By
Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group

BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...

Hyperventilating Trump haters need to get a grip

By
Julia Duncan

NORTHFIELD, MASS.-There are so many hysterical writers to this paper that it's difficult to focus...

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News

No paper next week

Tuesday, June 25, 2024 — Issue 771

BRATTLEBORO-A reminder to readers that The Commons will not publish an issue on Wednesday, July 3. Any urgent news and updates will be published on the newspaper's website. The newspaper will resume publication on Wednesday, July 12, with the deadline for submissions of news and advertising on Friday, July 5. This News item was submitted to The Commons.

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Voices

Candidate thanks to voters: Amanda Ellis-Thurber

By
Amanda Ellis-Thurber
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 — Issue 779

BRATTLEBORO-I thank all the voters in District 7 who voted in the state primary election, with a special thank you to all who supported my campaign. So many of you trusted me with your concerns about affordability, drugs in our communities, housing, and property taxes. I urge you to continue to speak up and share your viewpoints. I wish Emilie Kornheiser well as she goes forward to the general election in November. Thank you again to all. Amanda Ellis-Thurber Brattleboro...

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Arts

Stone Church Arts presents world flute master Gary Stroutsos

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 — Issue 427

On Saturday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m., Gary Stroutsos, world flute master, will take us on a journey around the world, from China to Cuba to the Native American West. Woodwinds Without Borders will showcase the music that he has explored and mastered throughout his long career as a professional musician. The concert will take place at the Stone Church on the hill at 20 Church St. While of Greek, Italian, and Lebanese descent, Stroutsos is acknowledged to have made...

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